I have a method that will take in a string and convert it into a Date using DateFormat. The problem is that I am not sure what the format the string should take. I used the date : "15-Jul-1999" which through up a java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "15-Jul-1999" All I need is the day month and year not the time. Thanks for ...

I have dates in the form 23-Dec-2005 12:34:10 I wish to compare them - this works but TimeStamp is deprecated :- Timestamp start = new java.sql.Timestamp(ts.parse(starttime)); Timestamp stop = new java.sql.Timestamp(ts.parse(stoptime)); Calendar calstart = Calendar.getInstance(); Calendar calstop = Calendar.getInstance(); calstart.setTime(start); calstop.setTime(stop); if (calstart.compareTo(calstop) == 0 ) JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null," Equal"); I have tried using DateFormat instead of TimeStamp but am stuggling.

Hi all, I have a textfield, in which the user enters his day of birth (in dd/mm/yy format). I would like to calculate the age of user when he enters this. 1. getCurrentDate 2. format it in order to be same with the textfield 3. substract Is it right? or what is the best way to do this? Thanks for any ...

Hi guys, I'm looking for a way to get the date pattern from the DateFormat class. They have a number of localized styles, but I can't seem to work out how to get the actual pattern string. This seems to be supported in the SimpleDateFormat class, but not DateFormat. So, for example, what is the DateFormat.MEDIUM pattern for Japan? I'd like ...

Although it is very bad practice to name your classes to the same name as a class from the Java API you could solve your issue my specifing which Date class to use. public class Date{ public static void main (String [] args){ java.util.Date now = new java.util.Date(); java.text.DateFormat df = java.text.DateFormat.getDateInstance(java.text.DateFormat.MEDIUM); String s = df.format(now); System.out.println("Today is " + s); ...

I have a small problems with Windows and formatting of Dates, you can set the SHORT date format and the LONG date format, but not the Medium anywhere that I can see and Medium is the Default. I tend to get different results on Date formats now when i go from Machine to Machine, any idea where I can set this ...

Hi every body, I am trying to change the date format from 21-Sep-87 into 1987-09-21. For this, I followed the following method. But I do ' not know why it is not working. This code is working fine to me. String textDate = "JAN2001"; SimpleDateFormat sdfInput = new SimpleDateFormat ( "MMMyyyy" ) ; SimpleDateFormat sdfOutput = new SimpleDateFormat ("yyyy-MM-dd") ; Date ...

hi i was wondering if anyone could help me out with the answer to this??!? thanks people There is a standard class called DateFormat which (among other things) lets you convert dates to various different output formats. It has a subclass SimpleDateFormat which you may also use). Use it to write a method called convert which returns a String in the ...

Hi, I have requirement to display the date in the format what is selected in the system's regional setting. I am able pick the format with the help of code written below ((SimpleDateFormat)DateFormat.getInstance(DateFormat.Short, Locale.getDefault)).toPattern(); This is returning me the format in case of US ----> "MM/dd/yy"(Displaying 12/17/07), but systems regional setting shrt date displaying in the format ---> "MM/dd/yyyy".(Displaying 12/17/2007) Can ...

I've got some difficulties figuring out how to properly extend the DateFormat class to format the output as I want it. Basically I want to extend the DateFormat class and when I call the format method I want it to output the time like: 17:01:05:045 (with milliseconds included!) I am not sure how to do this. Can someone give me a ...